carrier
IPA: kˈæriɝ
noun
- A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship designed to carry starfighters
- A carrier pigeon.
- A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- (telecommunications) A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- (aviation) A certified airline.
- (engineering) That which drives or carries.
- A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- (especially automotive) Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
- (chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- (genetics, pathology) A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- (physics, electronics) A charge carrier.
- (art, manufacturing) A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
- A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
- Synonym of English Carrier
- A surname.
- A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
- Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. [A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.]
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Examples of "carrier" in Sentences
- The museum consists of the aircraft carrier.
- By definition, the carrier is the signal that is modulated.
- The nucleus of the naval battle group is the aircraft carrier.
- The craft was brought aloft by the White Knight carrier aircraft.
- The indestructible aircraft carriers are at the bottom of the sea.
- It was an outgrowth of the CVE, as was the amphibious assault carrier.
- The carrier is washed, and the radioactivity of the carrier is measured.
- The story was recorded in the book The Ship and The Storm by Jim Carrier.
- The Japanese applied the concept of the submarine aircraft carrier extensively.
- Hostilities have broken out, and a submersible aircraft carrier is in the area.